Andrew Baldwin is a human geographer at Durham University with a longstanding interest in questions around racism, nature and geography. His current work focuses on climate change, migration, and the international. He is currently completing a book manuscript on these themes called The Other of Climate Change: racial futurism, migration, humanism.
Serhiy Choliy is an associate professor in the depart of history at Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, Ukraine. His research interests are the history of universal military service in Europe and Austria-Hungary, environmental history, and processes of population relocation during the 20th century. His recent publications are The Mobilization at the Periphery. Universal Conscription as Modernization Factor of the Habsburg Empire 1868–1914 (2016) and “War as a model of population movement in the modern world: the Galician perspectives in the first world war”, in: The First World War as a Caesura? Demographic Concepts, Population Policy, and Genocide in the Late Ottoman, Russian, and Habsburg Spheres ( 2020).
Ruhi Deol is a sociologist and human geographer with twelve years of work experience in the environment and development sectors in India and Germany. She has worked with local and international NGOs, research firms, and in the digital humanities. A foray into an organic social business stoked a passion for livelihoods research, on women farmers in the Himalayan foothills, and reef-dependent communities in the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Affiliated with the Rachel Carson Center in Munich for the past six years, she has helped build its digital humanities platform, the Environment and Society Portal. She recently submitted her doctoral dissertation to LMU’s Department of Geography, titled “Building an Islandscape: Discourse, Livelihoods, and Development in the Andaman Islands, India”.
Sarah Earnshaw (she/her) is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California, Berkeley and fellow at the German Historical Institute Pacific Regional Office. She is developing her new project, “Displacing Disaster Temporalities: US Temporary Protection and Caribbean Climate Mobilities.” Embracing an environmental humanities perspective alongside her work in political theory and the history of International Relations, her research interests revolve around the entanglements of security and liberty, humanitarianism, as well as questions of racism and coloniality in US foreign relations. In 2019, she received her PhD from LMU Munich and is currently working on her first book, Freedom Will Be Defended: Human Rights and Sovereign Standards in US Security. Previously, she obtained an MA in History and Literature and an MLitt in War Studies from the University of Glasgow. As of May 2021, she will be joining the DFG-funded research training group “Practicing Place” as a postdoc at KU Eichstätt-Ingolstadt.
Samantha Maurer Fox (she/her) is an assistant professor of Urban Anthropology in the department of sociology and anthropology at Lehigh University. From 2018 to 2020, Fox was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility at the New School for Social Research. Her research focuses on urban renewal and sustainability in Germany and the United States. She is currently working on a book titled The Afterlife of Utopia: Urban Renewal in Germany’s Model Socialist City, which examines contemporary life in Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany. Founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, an East German socialist utopia, the city suffered catastrophic economic and population declines following the collapse of the East German state. Today, however, residents are once again optimistic as urban planners look to the socialist past to forge a new urban paradigm: one focused on managing shrinkage, decreasing energy consumption, and fulfilling the needs of marginal populations such as refugees and the elderly. Fox has also worked on the revitalization of the Erie Canal region in New York State. She received her PhD in sociocultural anthropology from Columbia University in 2018..
Achilles Kallergis is an assistant professor at the New School for Social Research and the Director of the Cities and Migration Project at the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility. He coordinates the Research Platform on Cities and Human Mobility — a collaboration of The New School and fifteen research institutions from around the world. His research focuses on urbanization, migration, and mobility in rapidly growing cities. Specifically, it explores environmental mobility and how locally-generated data can provide new evidence on mobility patterns and contribute to improving living conditions in low-income destination areas through better provision of housing and services.
Katharina Loeber is Is a lecturer and research assistant in the department of history at the University of Hagen. She received her PhD in 2017 from the University of Cologne for her dissertation “Engineering White Supremacy: Spatial Planning, Ethnic Categorisation, Environmental Power. Hegemonising a Racial Society in Twentieth- Century South Africa.” Her publications include Racism and Human Ecology. Engineering White Supremacy in Twentieth Century South Africa (2019) and Der Niedergang des Chilesalpeters. Chemische Forschung-militärische Interessen- ökonomische Auswirkungen (2010).
Uwe Lübken is a professor of American history at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich. He has held teaching and research positions at the universities of Cologne, Munich, Münster and at the German Historical Institute in Washington, DC. His publications include a prize-winning book on the U.S. perception of the National Socialist threat to Latin America and several edited volumes, special issues, and articles on (American) transnational history and the history of natural hazards and catastrophes. He has published a history of flooding along the Ohio River (2014) and co-edited volumes on urban fires (2012), the management of natural resources (2014) and city-river relations (2016). His current work explores the intersections of mobilities and the environment.
Felix Mauch is an assistant professor in the history of technology at TU Munich. He studied geosciences and history in Freiburg. He was a research associate at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) from 2009 to 2015 and received his PhD from LMU Munich in 2014. Since 2015, he has been a lecturer in the history of technology, STS and environmental studies at TU Munich and the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS). He was awarded postdoctoral fellowships at the German Historical Institute in London and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin.
Julia Morris (DPhil, University of Oxford, 2017) is an assistant professor of International Studies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. She is a political anthropologist and migration studies scholar whose research focuses on the commodification of human mobility. She has conducted fieldwork in the Republic of Nauru, Australia, Geneva, Fiji, Jordan, and the Texas-Mexico borderlands. Her current work examines the postcolonial overlaps of resource extractive sectors centered on migrants and commodities. Her book, From Phosphate to Refugees: The Offshore Refugee Industry is forthcoming with Cornell University Press. http://www.juliacmorris.com
Cleovi C. Mosuela recently completed a postdoctoral research fellowship at the department of sociology, Bielefeld University where she also received her PhD. Her current project examines the relationship between the precarity of the transnational worker and the inherent but increasing precariousness of humans on a volatile Earth. It is not only an object of study for her but also an approach to reflect on her migrant subjectivity – having moved from the global South to work in the global North – by drawing on the tradition of women of color and postcolonial scholars. Cleovi carried out ethnographic and qualitative research projects which led her to do fieldwork in Manila, Rome, Frankfurt, Tübingen, Los Angeles, and New York where she conducted interviews with people from various advocacy groups such as labor, healthcare, migrants’ and civil rights, and climate justice. Bringing diverse voices, narratives, and backgrounds into conversation is a constant in her work.
Thomas Nail is a professor of philosophy at the University of Denver and author of numerous books, including The Figure of the Migrant, Theory of the Border, Marx in Motion, Theory of the Image, Theory of the Object, Theory of the Earth, Lucretius I, II, III, Returning to Revolution, and Being and Motion. His research focuses on the philosophy of movement and can be read online at udenver.academia.edu/ThomasNail
Sarah Louise Nash is a postdoctoral researcher working on climate change politics and policy, especially when climate change intersects with human mobility. Holding a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship of the European Commission, Nash is based at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Universität für Bodenkultur) in Vienna. She completed her PhD in political science in the research group Climate Change and Security (CLISEC) at the University of Hamburg, Germany, where she wrote her thesis on the policymaking discourse of the climate change and migration nexus between the Cancun and Paris climate negotiations. Sarah holds an MSc in Human Rights and International Politics from the University of Glasgow, an MA in German and Politics from the University of Edinburgh, and a BA in Political Science from the University of Vienna. Her research interests include climate change politics, human mobilities, borders, human rights, and discourse analysis.
Tina Shull (she/hers) is a public historian of race, empire, immigration enforcement, and climate migration in the modern US and the World. She holds a PhD in History from UC Irvine, a Master’s in Humanities and Social Thought from NYU, and a BA in History from UCLA. From 2018-20, Shull was a postdoctoral fellow in Global American Studies at Harvard University. She is the creator of IMM Print and Climate Refugee Stories, and has been named a Soros Justice Fellow and a National Geographic explorer for her storytelling work. Her forthcoming book explores the rise of migrant detention in the United States in the 1980s..